Regiment: King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment 8th Battalion

BORN HULL 1884. SON OF ROBERT HARMER AND ELIZABETH GREETING (1863-1949) OF 12, GRASSMERE AVENUE, SUBWAY STREET, HULL AND 8, WALKER TERRACE, MANCHESTER STREET, HESSLE ROAD, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE HAD FOUR BROTHERS. HE WORKED AS A DOCK LABOURER. HE ENLISTED AT LANCASTER. POSTED TO FRANCE, ON 27TH SEPTEMBER 1915. SERVED WITH THE 8T […]

Born Sigglesthorne, Hull, 1893. Son of Walter Scott Mathison and Mary Eliza Mathison, of Sigglesthorne, Wassand and Seaton, East Yorkshire villages. He had two sisters and three brother. and worked as a Horse man/Waggoner, on his father's, Goxhill Farm at Seaton. He enlisted on 12/12/1915 and was mobilized at Newcastle, on 13/05/1916. […]

BORN HULL 1898. SON OF HARRY PADLEY (1861-1915) & ELIZABETH WINTER JEFFERSON (1863-1923), OF 108 HESSLE ROAD, HULL (1901 CENSUS) AND 38 SOUTH PARADE, HULL (1911 CENSUS). SON OF A DOCK LABOURER. ONE OF EIGHT CHILDREN. HIS BROTHERS HARRY & ALBERT PADLEY BOTH MERCHANT SEAMAN SERVED AT THE SAME ADDRESS. HIS OTHER BROTHER, PRIVATE, CHARLES P […]

BORN HULL 1887. SECOND SON OF THE LATE JOHN & ALICE SPAFFORD, OF26 SALTBURN STREET, HULL. A BUTCHER SHOP ASSISTANT. HE MARRIED IN 1914. HIS WIFE EVA EVERLYN COCKBURN & SON WALLY, LIVED AT 2, FLINTON GROVE, WOODCOCK STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION AND 1918 MILITARY VOTERS ADDRESS). HE ENLISTED HULL. SERVED IN THE 8TH KING'S OWN ROYAL […]

BORN LEVEN, HULL, 1891. SON OF GEORGE POSKITT WATSON, OF 49 , WINCOLMLEE, HULL. A FORMER FARMER. HIS ARMY RECORDS DESCRIBED HIM AS 5 FOOT 5 INCHES TALL. 37 INCH CHEST, 144 LBS & CHURCH OF ENGLAND. HE ENLISTED AT BEVERLEY, ON 01/05/1916. FORMERLY, OF THE ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY, BASED IN PRESTON. HE WAS POSTED TO FRANCE 07/10/1916. TRAN […]